One of the great NBA playoff series of all time! The intensity of games 4-7 was high-octane! Horry's shot saved the series and the Lakers showed up big-time in Gms 5 & 7!
I was working as a bus boy at a sports bar in San Diego and remember watching this when it happened. The entire bar LOST it!!! Great memories. Thank you Rob.
This game brings back great memories!!! When Horry hit this shot me n my Pops went absolutely NUTS!!! It lowkey was a great bond moment between father and son.
The momentum would of been gone if the lakers went down 3-1 in positive kings would of won my issue is Kobe an shaq tries to down play the kings calling them the queens as if we didn’t see them struggle to win this series
Even watching this 22yrs later I remembered how I destroyed my voice box. I was so pumped and scary my wife left this house for 30mins...lol My beloved Lakers Magic, Ceballos, Eddie Jones, Kobe and my all time Shaq and Chick Hearn Today I have no clue who's playing
The forgotten part about this game is how Samaki Walker's three at the half should've never counted. Ball was still in his hands at 0:00. There was no replay review that season (that changed shortly after). Imagine if that three never counted. Maybe no game 6 which.........
forgotten my ass lol. everyone, especially laker haters, always bring this up. so the lakers are down another 3 going into the second half; so what? they would have played as if they were down 3 more points. they were already playing desperation basketball the entire 2nd half while the kings started play not to lose instead of to win. kings shouldve won this game easy tbh
This game spawned the 'Samaki Walker rule' and for a decade it was a Wikipedia entry until it wasn't. One NBA owner in Texas pushed this review rule through even though the NBA would rather no one look at the expired halftime clock where the ball is still in Walker's hand with 0:00 on the clock.
Everyone talks about the final sequence, but it’s the missed free throw that made the game-winner possible. Why did Divac (62% FT%) have the ball instead of Peja (88%), Christie (85%), or Bibby (80%) when the Lakers had to foul!?!?
because the Kings were a beast of a team, but they didn't have 2 of the best player on the planet so there was no clear alpha to kick the ball too. They did the right thing and passed it around the outside forcing Shaq to come out to try and foul
@@xaviervega468 Or one of the Kings' players should've guarded the three-point line to grab Vlade's slap. All five Kings' players were in the paint and nobody guarded Robert Horry.
@@xaviervega468 I think he was trying to do what he saw Magic Johnson do in Game 7 of the WCF in 1991 vs the Blazers. Magic threw the ball across the court and ran the clock down to nearly zero. It was a brilliant defensive play that won the game and the series. Unfortunately, Vlade is no Magic. 😆
everytime these lakers got in a hole in tight games, you can see how good their defence got. Everyone was more active, faster, and challenged shots better. They could turn it on when needed.
The momentum would of been gone if the lakers went down 3-1 in positive kings would of won my issue is Kobe an shaq tries to down play the kings calling them the queens as if we didn’t see them struggle to win this series
Nothing compares to this game... but the regular season game the following year where Lakers came back to beat Dallas down by 30 or something like that in the 4th quarter was also unbelievably great too.
On the final play of Game 4. 17:48 First mistake by the Kings: Kobe Bryant penetrating past Doug Christie to the basket and saw Chris Webber pinching into the paint. 17:52 Grab the rebound with two hands Vlade Divac. Instead, he slapped the ball to Robert Horry who was waiting at the three-point line and nobody guarding him. 17:53 C-Webb: Oh shit! I left Big Shot Rob open. Webber got there too late and Horry got a great look to nail his patented playoff game-winning daggers. That's the same mistake Rasheed Wallace did in Game 5 of the 2005 NBA Finals when Horry was a Spur against the Pistons.
@@regulator674 Audacity ain't the word the thing is LBJ tries tooooo tooooo hard to be these guys from this era which is ridiculously absurd no two ways about it. He ain't never gonna be no MJ or Kobe ( RIP Mamba) now that's the real crime 😂.
My whole apartment in Van Nuys erupted after Horry hit this 3! And then everyone was running outside cheering and hi fives all around! Damn good ol days
@@deadringer2349 So, it was the refs who blew a 24-point lead and failed to grab one rebound on the final play of Game 4. It was the referees who fouled and gave the Lakers 40 free throw attempts and saw the Lakers made 34 of them in Game 6. It was the refs who went 16 of 30 from the free throw line and 2 of 20 from downtown in Game 7. Nope, it was the Sacramento Kings themselves. Keep being a sour grapes crybaby.
Doug Christie shoots a unneeded 3, and a contested 1 handed runner, Bobby Jackson and Mike Bibby missing critical 3s, Hedo dancing in the 1st half and joking laughing with Chris Webber. Bringing in Speedy Claxton at the wrong time, Semeke Walker hitting a 3 at the buzzer before the half to bring the lead to 24, Pedrag not Peja not hitting 3s and not getting the ball in the inbound when Lakers fouled Vlade bc he is a 60% ft shooter and Chris Webber shooting a shot with 1 second to go on the shot clock and Shaq blocking that ball in the 6th or 7th row while still in the air. 3 fouls were called on Scott Pollard that made me scratch my head and 3 fouls were called bc Shaq was too dominant and Vlade Divac is the original flopper.
Imagine if shaq was as good as Robert Horry! He wouldn't of had to skirt tail himself to championships. Thank you Kobe, Dwane for putting this clown on the map!!
@@beyoncebillings6625 2003 was a better chance for the Sacramento Kings with a better defense and deeper team than in 2002 until Chris Webber injured his knee against the Dallas Mavericks.
@@2002films please. Anytime someone gets a slight advantage homecourt or whatever people start complaining. If ur gonna bring up any bad calls their were many that went both ways. Kings had Game 7 at their place and choked it.
@@joesakic91 Game 4 and 7 I agree. Game 6 was a screwjob. There was no way the refs were letting the Kings close the series out. Without the refs the Lakers lose game 6. Full stop, end of story.
People can talk about Games and 6 and 7 of the 2002 WCF all they want, but this game is arguably the killer for Rick Adelman and the Sacramento Kings. Either win the race to 100 points or grab one rebound on the final play and win Game 4 and go up 3-1. The Kings did neither and lost Games 4, 6, and 7 and the 2002 WCF altogether to the Lakers.
Lol on Duncan’s and KG’s level even tho Webber was known for choking in clutch plays throughout his career. KG and Duncan end up killing the same Lakers team in the 2003 playoffs. They raised their level of play vs them unlike Webber.
@@Theterminato2013 KG killed the Lakers in 2003? No he didn't..KG never got outta the first around until he had Sam Cassell & Spree & that was just one season. Then he wins a chip on a superteam, albeit only one when that team should've won more
Your hating tears are so delicious! Can I have some more please? 20 years later, the Kings completed a snakebitten hat trick while the Lakers tack on three more titles in 2009, 2010, and 2020.
This was one of the most exciting NBA playoff games I have ever seen.
One of the great NBA playoff series of all time! The intensity of games 4-7 was high-octane! Horry's shot saved the series and the Lakers showed up big-time in Gms 5 & 7!
@@edkiely2712 You mean Games 6 and 7. The Kings won Game 5.
@@joesakic91 Yes! Thx buddy!
Sean T. & stupidest!
Facts
I was working as a bus boy at a sports bar in San Diego and remember watching this when it happened. The entire bar LOST it!!! Great memories. Thank you Rob.
This game brings back great memories!!! When Horry hit this shot me n my Pops went absolutely NUTS!!! It lowkey was a great bond moment between father and son.
The momentum would of been gone if the lakers went down 3-1 in positive kings would of won my issue is Kobe an shaq tries to down play the kings calling them the queens as if we didn’t see them struggle to win this series
as a lifelong laker fan.. that was at or near the top of best wins i've seen
Hell yeah!! I remember being locked in on the TV not getting out of my spot on some superstition shit😂😂
Even watching this 22yrs later I remembered how I destroyed my voice box. I was so pumped and scary my wife left this house for 30mins...lol
My beloved Lakers
Magic, Ceballos, Eddie Jones, Kobe and my all time Shaq and Chick Hearn
Today I have no clue who's playing
same. Lebron should never have been a laker,. I don't follow any of it
Robert to the rescue again
This was an instant classic.🏀🔥👍
The forgotten part about this game is how Samaki Walker's three at the half should've never counted. Ball was still in his hands at 0:00. There was no replay review that season (that changed shortly after). Imagine if that three never counted. Maybe no game 6 which.........
Yeah, but the Kings still had the lead for most of the game and should've won the race to 100 points and failed to grab one rebound on the final play.
forgotten my ass lol. everyone, especially laker haters, always bring this up. so the lakers are down another 3 going into the second half; so what? they would have played as if they were down 3 more points. they were already playing desperation basketball the entire 2nd half while the kings started play not to lose instead of to win. kings shouldve won this game easy tbh
over 24 minutes, the lakers would have adjusted to the score.
17:55 "Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Man that crowd was hot.
Man. I remember running through my friends house screaming when Horry hit that shot. Lol. Classic!
Robert Horry pretty much saved the Lakers from going down into a 3-1 hole
of course, and the championship
As a Laker fan watching this game with that incredible ending was mind blowing.
i remember crying after this game
Extrañamos está versión de la NBA, lo de hoy es puro show.
The best buzzer beater ever by the big shot Rob. Can never forget this moment 😎
This game spawned the 'Samaki Walker rule' and for a decade it was a Wikipedia entry until it wasn't. One NBA owner in Texas pushed this review rule through even though the NBA would rather no one look at the expired halftime clock where the ball is still in Walker's hand with 0:00 on the clock.
Instant replay was implemented in 2002-03.
Everyone talks about the final sequence, but it’s the missed free throw that made the game-winner possible. Why did Divac (62% FT%) have the ball instead of Peja (88%), Christie (85%), or Bibby (80%) when the Lakers had to foul!?!?
Peja didn't play in this game but I agree could have subbed in Bobby Jackson for that possession
because the Kings were a beast of a team, but they didn't have 2 of the best player on the planet so there was no clear alpha to kick the ball too. They did the right thing and passed it around the outside forcing Shaq to come out to try and foul
No NBA anymore darn it I miss this kinda basketball 🏀
Yes I missed the refs rigging this series
@@ec7057 Yet, the Kings still choked.
Thanks vlade for the assist 😂
I don't know what Divac was thinking tapping the ball out. He grabs that rebound and the Kings win.
@@xaviervega468 Or one of the Kings' players should've guarded the three-point line to grab Vlade's slap. All five Kings' players were in the paint and nobody guarded Robert Horry.
@@xaviervega468 I was thinking the same thing. All he had to do, was get the rebound and they go up, 3-1.
@@joesakic91 Tapping the ball out was the wrong play period. Grab the rebound and make the Lakers foul you.
@@xaviervega468 I think he was trying to do what he saw Magic Johnson do in Game 7 of the WCF in 1991 vs the Blazers. Magic threw the ball across the court and ran the clock down to nearly zero. It was a brilliant defensive play that won the game and the series. Unfortunately, Vlade is no Magic. 😆
CLUTCH free throws by Shaq!!He made em when they counted
17:54 Horry for the win
everytime these lakers got in a hole in tight games, you can see how good their defence got. Everyone was more active, faster, and challenged shots better. They could turn it on when needed.
The momentum would of been gone if the lakers went down 3-1 in positive kings would of won my issue is Kobe an shaq tries to down play the kings calling them the queens as if we didn’t see them struggle to win this series
Nothing compares to this game... but the regular season game the following year where Lakers came back to beat Dallas down by 30 or something like that in the 4th quarter was also unbelievably great too.
Mike Bibby was 🔥🔥🔥🔥
On the final play of Game 4.
17:48 First mistake by the Kings: Kobe Bryant penetrating past Doug Christie to the basket and saw Chris Webber pinching into the paint.
17:52 Grab the rebound with two hands Vlade Divac. Instead, he slapped the ball to Robert Horry who was waiting at the three-point line and nobody guarding him.
17:53 C-Webb: Oh shit! I left Big Shot Rob open. Webber got there too late and Horry got a great look to nail his patented playoff game-winning daggers.
That's the same mistake Rasheed Wallace did in Game 5 of the 2005 NBA Finals when Horry was a Spur against the Pistons.
LBJ couldn’t hang in this era, too soft.
Dam right,that's for sure. Real ball players.
@@rickyalcoser6052 sick of the comparison of these soft players vs what we grew up watching. Smh the audacity 😂
@@regulator674 Audacity ain't the word the thing is LBJ tries tooooo tooooo hard to be these guys from this era which is ridiculously absurd no two ways about it. He ain't never gonna be no MJ or Kobe ( RIP Mamba) now that's the real crime 😂.
Nice highlights!
HORRY Big shoottt
Love re-watching this..Queens haven't recovered for 2 decades now😂
Fakers will never win again, and the samaki walker 3 at half would not have counted by modern replay rules. So Kings won
@@Yanel5795 queens have a lesser chance to ever win one ever🤡
Divac must be thinking , why the hell did Horry stand in there
He looked like Manu, Kawhi and George Hill when they missed a FT
And Chris Webber must be mumbling, "I should've stayed with Big Shot Rob at the three-point line."
My whole apartment in Van Nuys erupted after Horry hit this 3! And then everyone was running outside cheering and hi fives all around! Damn good ol days
Shaq was totally unguardable in those championship years
and yet they somehow needed the refs to win this series 🤫
@@deadringer2349 Yet, the Kings choked away their chances to win it all in 2002 and 2003.
@@joesakic91 with a little help from the refs, yeah they did choke. 🤭
@@deadringer2349 So, it was the refs who blew a 24-point lead and failed to grab one rebound on the final play of Game 4.
It was the referees who fouled and gave the Lakers 40 free throw attempts and saw the Lakers made 34 of them in Game 6.
It was the refs who went 16 of 30 from the free throw line and 2 of 20 from downtown in Game 7.
Nope, it was the Sacramento Kings themselves.
Keep being a sour grapes crybaby.
@@joesakic91 "a little help"
I know lakers got a lot of calls this series. But thats no way a charge at 09:02
was looking in the comments for this
17:55 YOU CANT EVEN HEAR MARV
AMAZING
Right place...Right time.
Best game ever
I remember this game me an brother jumped up in house
Great video
Vlade could of grabbed the rebound 17:52
Good defense but, why smack it to the 3pt line.
Kings would have been up 3-1
I used to like that Kings team
Where was all that laughter at at the end for the queens?
Big Shot Bob baby!
laker the year if greatness bye once Phil Jackson headed ⭐
Lucky Shot> Vlade Divac😂
B S O sentence 💪😱💥🇮🇹
n.b. se la perdevano,serie quasi finita....... MAI con KOBY
Shaq and Kobe to win the game 🧱 Robert hurry 💧
💜🖤💛
ang sakit namn yong panalo na talo pa tabga kasila devic hnd penasok pettor 2 kaya iyak sila
I hope Phil Jackson comeback to lakers couch
Clearly the keague fixed this series in favor of LA
The Pedowitz report says no.
Doug Christie shoots a unneeded 3, and a contested 1 handed runner, Bobby Jackson and Mike Bibby missing critical 3s, Hedo dancing in the 1st half and joking laughing with Chris Webber. Bringing in Speedy Claxton at the wrong time, Semeke Walker hitting a 3 at the buzzer before the half to bring the lead to 24, Pedrag not Peja not hitting 3s and not getting the ball in the inbound when Lakers fouled Vlade bc he is a 60% ft shooter and Chris Webber shooting a shot with 1 second to go on the shot clock and Shaq blocking that ball in the 6th or 7th row while still in the air. 3 fouls were called on Scott Pollard that made me scratch my head and 3 fouls were called bc Shaq was too dominant and Vlade Divac is the original flopper.
@@danielwilliams5139 Speedy Claxton didn't play for the Sacramento Kings in 2002.
Shout out to mike bibby tho
Divac won the game for the Lakers!
nah it was webber . only if he did not leave horry alone
@@taelabaho Divac secures the rebound instead of tapping the ball out and the Kings win.
@@xaviervega468 Or Chris Webber stays on Robert Horry and picks up Vlade's slap.
Imagine if shaq was as good as Robert Horry! He wouldn't of had to skirt tail himself to championships. Thank you Kobe, Dwane for putting this clown on the map!!
as an avid kobe fan: this is one the most L takes i have ever seen lol. shaq is a top 10 player of all time, no question.
Dang it
4:10 5:04 7:32 11:03
Sacramento Kings Actual 2002 NBA Champions
Los Angeles Lakers, GENUINE 2002 NBA Champions!
Damn I think anybody would lose there shit if you came back down 20 plus you almost went down 3-1 then got saved by the ball getting smacked out
Kings vs Lakers and ref's
this one and .4
is this the game where the refs cheated to have the lakrs win?
No, it was Game 6. The Sacramento Kings blew their chances to win it all in 2002 by losing Games 4, 6, and 7 of the 2002 WCF to the Lakers.
Divac was a big dummy
dude screwed us on the court and off the court
The Kings should have made it to the finals
Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
@@joesakic91 that was a good team the Lakers was just in the way
@@beyoncebillings6625 2003 was a better chance for the Sacramento Kings with a better defense and deeper team than in 2002 until Chris Webber injured his knee against the Dallas Mavericks.
@@beyoncebillings6625 Lakers got league assistance
@@2002films please. Anytime someone gets a slight advantage homecourt or whatever people start complaining. If ur gonna bring up any bad calls their were many that went both ways. Kings had Game 7 at their place and choked it.
As a commentator Bill Walton is pathetic 😅😅
The refs screw Sacramento Kings
Nah, the Kings choked.
I fail to see how the refs have La a win. The Sacramento queens choked
Game 6 the refs completely screwed Sacramento. Everyone knows this except Lakers homers.
The refs admitted to fixing the games
@@jjktng Pedowitz report squashed Tim Donaghy's claims.
@@xaviervega468 Nah. The Kings blew their chances by losing all three of Games 4, 6, and 7 of the 2002 WCF.
@@joesakic91 Game 4 and 7 I agree. Game 6 was a screwjob. There was no way the refs were letting the Kings close the series out. Without the refs the Lakers lose game 6. Full stop, end of story.
People can talk about Games and 6 and 7 of the 2002 WCF all they want, but this game is arguably the killer for Rick Adelman and the Sacramento Kings.
Either win the race to 100 points or grab one rebound on the final play and win Game 4 and go up 3-1.
The Kings did neither and lost Games 4, 6, and 7 and the 2002 WCF altogether to the Lakers.
PRIME C WEBB DNT GET HIS JUST DO. HE IS ON TIM DUNCAN/K.G./RASHEED WALLACE LEVEL BETTER THAN DIRK
Did you just call Rasheed Wallace better than Dirk?
Lol on Duncan’s and KG’s level even tho Webber was known for choking in clutch plays throughout his career. KG and Duncan end up killing the same Lakers team in the 2003 playoffs. They raised their level of play vs them unlike Webber.
Mr time out
@@Theterminato2013 KG killed the Lakers in 2003? No he didn't..KG never got outta the first around until he had Sam Cassell & Spree & that was just one season. Then he wins a chip on a superteam, albeit only one when that team should've won more
Kings won this!
I always got to be one
Um, it was Lakers 100, Kings 99.
Hido Srbine
LA Lakers won this series by help of the refs and cheating. If not for refs and cheating Kings could have beaten LA in this particular series 😡😡😡
Your hating tears are so delicious! Can I have some more please?
20 years later, the Kings completed a snakebitten hat trick while the Lakers tack on three more titles in 2009, 2010, and 2020.
The NBA was so good back then until lebron James start that super team bullshit